The Greater Nashville Association of Realtors said Thursday there were 3,349 home closings reported for the month of July. This represents a 15.7 percent decrease from the 3,976 closings reported for the same period last year. More

The fast-growing 12South neighborhood, which has seen a near doubling of property values in the last decade, will in August be the subject of a series of detailed neighborhood planning meetings, the Metropolitan Planning Commission has announced. More

For John Black, executive director of the Smyrna/Rutherford Co. Airport Authority, the phone call back in 2002 was memorable, to say the least. A representative of Southwest Airlines was on the phone. The airline was floating a trial balloon to see if they could start commercial traffic at the Smyrna airport. More

The cost of buying the nation’s largest hospital chain can evidently put a dent in profits. Nashville-based HCA Inc., the largest U.S. hospital chain, said Thursday that second-quarter earnings fell 61 percent because of costs to finance its $33 billion leveraged buyout. More

A Charlotte, N.C., company plans to launch a new magazine in Nashville next week. Style Publications Inc., which publishes the recently launched Chattanooga Style magazine, will soon mail out more than 15,000 copies of the quarterly, 88-page STYLE 615 to high-income homes throughout the Middle Tennessee area. More